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djs a VOL. 2.—No,. 12.— Whole No. 64 CLANCY, MONTANA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1896. $2.00 A YEAR. For Mining Supplies and Machinery seen arian caer 2° A. M. HOLTER HARDWARE CO. “G&K” HYDRAULIC HOSE MINERS’ RUBBER COATS, cutive Gans & Klein, - - Elelena, Montana, T. J. CHESTNUT, Dealer in General Merchandise, HAY AND GRAIN, Clancy, - . : : W. F. Miller, Hotel and Restaurant, FINE SAMPLE ROOM IN CONNECTION. Montana. Montana. Clancy, . ; ‘ ‘ THE PEOPLE’S STORE, 513 and 515 Broadway, Helena, Mont. HEADQUARTERS FOR Groceries, Tinware and Notions, , CHINAWARE, Hay, Grain and General Merchandise; - CHEAPER THAN DIRT FOR SPOT CASH. CHARLES H. HENTON, Prop. CLARKE & CURTIN, HARDWARE AND STOVES. | We are now offering our entire line of heating stoves for Coal or Wood at | | Actual Cost | | what is now actually koewn to. be guod Send us your ofders for all kinds of HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. | PRICES LOW. 42 & 44 S. Main St. : - Helena, Mont.| ARTHUR P.CURTIN, | Furniture, Carpets, Wall Paper. Housefurnishing Goods. We carry the largest stock in every department in all Montana, Will occupy our Mam-| moth New Building, opposite Hotel Helena, November 15th. Grand Removal Bale now going on. Present Stock must be reduced. Pianos and Organs in Music Department. ARTHUR P. CURTIN, HELENA, MONTANA, J. SWITZER, Wines, Liquors and. Cigars, Bar Glassware and Billiard Goods. 40 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. TINDSA ¥ & CO. . WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUCE, HELENA, MONTANA. We carry a full line of Yruits and Produce of all kinds No Goods sold to Consumers. Bien aes extant + acndeeninenieimstiee FIRST-CLASS HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS. RESTAURANT IN CONNEOTION. World’s Fair Beer Garden and lodging House 0. G. FREDERICK, Proprietor. 100-102 South Main Street, - - - - Helena, Montana. HAS THE FINEST BOWLING ALLEY LN THE WEST IN CONNECTION. When you visit the Capital and are looking for a friend you will be sure to find him atthe most ular resort in Helena. The vhoicest wines, liquors and cigars and the best music can be heard at the | give bar which has fong been known to| again. The plant of the Ontario, as well | be righ in gold. . Last fall several men |as the mine, is located almost on top of | as the first stage station out from Helena. | In the old days when there were placer ores would not concentrate; the proper- MINES AND MINING. ties purchased by Broadwater were po closed down, then the Peerless Jennie Regular Weekly Clean-up from. the ceased operations and one after another 6, Loe other propertics followed suit. Then Mines of the Lump and Clancy came the cap sheif of -all—the slump in Gulch Districts. the price of silver—and Rimini has been dying a lingering death ever since. But now things are beginning to Mining Notes and Items of the Day of au | brighten up in that vicinity, and we learn Interesting Character, from a gentleman just in from that sec- - tion: that Rimini will this year, having Bar silver, 6834. caught her second wind, put on more Lead, $3.20. business-like airs than for some years Copper, $11.00. past. There is no denying the fact that *, * in Red Mountain, and in the mountains ian aati ilies FOR Tak wrex. | mediately surrounding it, there are millions of tons of low-grade gold and ee WE > RI a 1\silver ores, and on some of these well Little Nell ........... Aste 1|}known properties work in already in Brow Coinage «i044... ... 0... 6 nih 1| progress, and on several others will be Tattle Altai. iii... oes os cco 1| within the next few weeks. There is =~» | still considerable snow on the main TOU I... ese nen e te 4) range, not half so much as the placer £ * | miners wish there was, perhaps, but still , enough tosomewhat delay quartz mining MO’CAULEY'S GOLD BAR. operations, The Ontario, located about Mr. Willis R. Sherman has leased the} ten miles from Rimini, is running with right to use water, together with his|a full force, both in the mine and mill. water right in the Prickly Pear Creek, | This property is one of the oldest mines the same to be used in the ditch which | in the district, as well as one of the best. runs through the Sherman ranch above | The concentrator belonging tu the prop- McCauley’s, for one year, with prixilege lerty is now being enlarged to about of extension, to James Clegg and Perry | double its present capacity, and it is ex- H. Park. .The Sherman ditch: was con-| pected that everything will be in readi- structed some years ago, and except for | ness for operation early in April. A wa- irrigation purposes bas been but little | ter elevator is being constructed to lift hsed for sometime past tne water that Has been once used in the Opposite Mr. Me@auley’s house on the | concentrator to the place from whence banks of the Prickly Pear, is an exten-|it started, where it is ready for use obtiined from Mr. McCauly the right to|the main divide of the Rocky Moun- causes have contributed to this deca- dence of the mining industry, and these are the serious political disturbances and the increasing scarcity of native la- bor. The latter difficulty is evidently getting worse, for a cablegram from the Robinson Company, near the last of Feb- ruary, stated that the company’s mill had been closed, and that there was dan- ger of their being compelled to shut down their chlorination and cyanide works, on account of the lack of labor. The Robinson was the greatest producer of the district in December, reporting an output of 10,777 ozs. during that month. Both the South Afrivan and the London papers try to take a cheer ful view of the situation, but it is evi- dent that they are a good deal worried by the unfavorable outlook. The “Rand Circus” seems to have been another in- stance of the “vaulting ambition that o’erleaps itself,” for it was evidently the excitement thus engendered that led up to Jameson's. disastrous raid, and that promises to have a very serious etiect: up- on the value of Rand stocks. The sky of the Transvaal is still gloomy, and the gold production of that country for 1896, instead of making the fabulous advan- ces predicted for it by the London pro- moters and magazine essayiste, is likely to fall far below that of 1865. This year everything tends to focus the interest in gold mining upon the United States.- Mining Industry. Canada produced $1,910,921 in gald and $1,158,633 in silver during the year 1896. Mr. C. M. Dunwoody, met with a very painful accident one day last week, and has been compelled to lay up for repairs. ground sluice this bar, and the attempt | tains. was made to raise water for this purpose| The discovery of the fact that gold ex at a point about half a mile above the | sts in paying quantities in the perphyry bar, by horse power, and later by means | dyke, and where the Pauper’s Dream of a Chinese pnmp and an overshot water | Company are now operating a ten-stamp wheel placed down in the current of the | mill, and for which they have machinery creek, but both these methods of obtain- | on the road to enlarge to double its pres- ing sufficient head of water to properly | ent capacity; the Merrell Gold . Mining slunce the ground was finally abandoned Company, who are also operating 4 ten- as-impracticable.. Now however, Messrs, stamp mill; the Columbia, owned by While working at the Little Nell dump | he struck his foot with a sharp pick pen- | etrating to the bone, making an ugly wound. After the Koom the Camp “ Finds Itself\ There comes @ time in the history of every successful mining camp when the floating population decreases, and when the speculative element drops into the background ; the streets are no longer Clegg and. Park have purchased the’| Mose Manuel, the discoverer of the right to work the gravels in this bar, and | Black Hills Homestake, with his ten- as above stated, have leased the old| stamp mill, all pounding away on the | Shérmati ditch and the water to flow }ores from this dyke, has contributed to theough it, and bave- already cleaned it| give to Rimini such a new lease,of life out and otherwise put in condition to|that, could the “dawdling dude from carry 300 miners’ inches of water, which | the banks of the Arno” be set down in is thought to be ample to successfully | the busy streets of the little mining handle the gravels in the bar. camp he christened, through the inspira Actual mining operations will com-| tion of the genius of the immortal Bar crowded with people at all hours-of the day, and there ceases to be any element of feverish excitement. The camp has settled down to business. To use the nautical phrase with which Mr. Kipling has made us familiar, the camp has “found itself.” Booms are useful in their way, and they are very opportune for the promoter and real estate speou lator, but their real utility in a mining mence on the bar just as soon’ as the | ret, he would again wish himself gover frost is outof the ground. The bar has | nor of this great common wealth. been prospected on bed-rueck over quite -. * an extensive area, butit.is thought that pay will be found beyond the limits of MINING NOTES, Messrs. McCann, James Russel) and ‘ and the Latimer Bros. are sinking on a ground, and if so, there.will probably be two or three seasons work in that vicin- ity with good results. McOnuley’s is an old and familiar landmark in the Prickly Pear canyon, and will be remembered by all old timers | erpool. They have a shaft. down about 40 feet and have struck—water. The lode looks well, however, and the boys @onounce that they will soon put up a whim and send her on down as low as a whim is practicable for that purpose. mining opefat‘ons going on just below| Nickel is a modern metal. where it is now proposed to .work, and | in use or known of till 1716, It has now claim about half a mile east of the Liv-| It was not} at the diggings further on down the creek at Montana City, MeCauley’s was a famous stopping placé: In the stage days of Gilmer, Salisbury & Co., and Wells, Fargo & Co., to say nothing of several other companies who formerly | did a heavy transportation afd freight | business through this gulch ; in the days | when the gravels over which their coaches rolled and spanking 4-horse teams made quick time from point to point, was giv- ing up their glittering thousands of yel- | low dust ; in the mad rush and feverish | stampede from “ diggings” to “diggings” | a good many virgin tracts of ground, | by the placer miners, or prospected in a} desultory sort of way and abandoned for | largely taken the place of silver in plated ware, and as an alloy with steel it is su- perior to any other metal, for it is not only non corrodible itself, but it trans camp is the stimulus which they give to | the discovery and development of new | mines. } mines remain. After the boom subsides the The present is an era of prospecting in all the mining States and | Territories. By and by we shall be able to take stock and learn how much the mining .industry has profited by it. Many extravagant predictions as to the results of so much enterprise and expen- diture will fail of realization, but there promises to be a handsome accession of permanent mining camps and profitable mines, and many who have invested their means with intelligence and forethought will be enriched by the product of the mines. In most cases it will be those who have “kept their heads” in the ex- citement, and avoided going beyond There is no business in | distance above Clancy, met with a pain- | invest. fers the same quality to steel; even their depth. “9 when combined .as low as 5 per cent it which thoroughness and stability are prevents oxidation. | more needed than in that of mining ; | and at the present time there is no other Mr. A. Fisher; while working at the | business that holds out such great in- face of a tunnel near his home a short | ducements to those who have money to Mining Industry. ful accident Tuesday last.. The tunnel | in which he was at work is about 400 Ex-Governor Alexander R. Shepherd, feet long and Mr. Fisher was working | Once the famous “ boss” of the National alone at the fave when a large rock from Capital, now of the Republic of Mexicd, the roof fell on his leg crushing it very.| bas been in Washington for some time, like the bar in question, was overlooked | badly. He managed to get out from un- | says the Silver Knight. In a late inter- der it and dragged himself to the mouth | view he was asked if the demonetization of the tunnel where he slid down the of silver had not injured Mexico. He re- > . -. ‘ supposed richer fields in other localities. | », i) and taid on the ground alongside the r Since that me ae a oe ne | road until some one chancing to pass by first place, and the magnificent yearly | 2:4 was summoned and Mr. Fisher car- outpot of» Montane each year, bears |ried to his home. It was found that his witness of how rich her mineral-bearing | leg was so badly hurt that it was thought there are yet thousands of dollars in gold scattered through the unwashed gravels in unworked bars in many if not all of the formerly: celebrated placer mines of the state. MINING MATTERS AT RIMINI. When Lawrence Barrett, some years ago presented, for the first time in the capital of Montana his famous represen- tation of “Franvesca di Rimini,” the performance and the name so pleased the then governor, John Schuyler Crosby, that he gave the name of “Rimini” to the new mining camp located at the foot of Red Mountain. That was in the days when Broadwater had just purchased a large number of claims on the mountain, and Mutphy & Buchanan were building a concentrator to treat the ores from the Lee Mountain mine. But the concen- World’s Fair. trator did not work satisfactorily, or the veins are; but the fact still remains that | ladvisable to send him in to Helena to |the Hospital. Mr. Fisher is a brother of Jake Fisher. county assessor of Lewis 'and Clarke county. The town of Neihart is prosperous. A feeling of general activity pervades the business class. The laboring classes ate contgnted, and all the elements of political life are at ease. The city gov- ernment is in the the most healthy con- dition ‘it has ever been and the feeling among the citizens is general that the present city officials are good enough, and that to exchange them for others might make the situation worse.—Nei- hart Herald. The gold output of the Rand for the month of January was 148,178 ozs., which as compared with the December produc- tion, is a falling off of 30,250 ozs. And December, it will be rembmbered, foll gomé 16,000 ozs. below November. Two plied as follows : “T think not. Mexico is very prosper- ous, and that too notwithstanding that for four years the crops have failed, and there has been considerable famine. this demonetization of silver acts as a protective tariff for Mexico. It keeps out foreign goods which are sold at gold prices by making them too expensive, and the result is that the Mexicans are establishing all kinds of factories. It is the same in Japan, and will be the same in China.. The Japanese are now mak- ing the most of their own cottons,and China is establishing cotton mills. We are, I think, likely to ruin ourselves if we keep up our present policy. We are trying to establish free-trade, and, by our demonetization of silver, are not only admitting the goods of the silver nations free, but are forcing them to keep out our goods by the protection of gold. They have the cheapest labor in the cheapest labor in the world, and they are manufacturing on a silver basis. They are selling on a gold basis, and they will in time be the richest people in the world.”
